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- NCSC - North Carolina Supercomputing Center
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- North Carolina Supercomputing Center
- P.O. Box 12889 - 3021 Cornwallis Road
- Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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- _E_m_a_i_l: info@flyer.ncsc.org
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- _P_h_o_n_e:
- (919) 248-1100
- FAX: (919) 248-1101
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The mission of the North Carolina Supercomputing Center
- (NCSC) is to promote the growth of computational science,
- education, and research in North Carolina institutions and
- to foster the economic development of North Carolina through
- high-performance computing and its applications. The pri-
- mary focus of NCSC is to promote economic growth, computa-
- tional science and education in North Carolina through
- cooperative agreements with industry and research collabora-
- tions with academic institutions at all levels. NCSC is a
- division of MCNC, a non-profit company. NCSC offers high-
- performance computing on the following platforms:
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- Cray YMP8/464 128 MWords SSD 62 GBytes of disk storage
- Convex C220 128 MBytes of memory 10 GBytes of disk storage
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- An IBM 3090-180J provides mass storage services for the
- Center using Unitree. The Center's computers are connected
- via a high-speed UltraNet network.
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- The NCSC visualization lab includes a Silicon Graphics
- 4D/280 GTX with stereo display, UltraNet network interface,
- eight processors, 128 megabytes of memory and three giga-
- bytes of disk storage; a Silicon Graphics 320 VGX-Turbo with
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
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- 32 megabytes of memory and 8 gigabytes of disk storage; a
- Sun 4/490 with 64 megabytes of memory and 7.3 gigabytes of
- disk storage; a DECStation 5000/200 PXG-Turbo with 96 mega-
- bytes of memory and 850 megabytes of disk storage; and a
- Stardent Titan 3040 P3 G3 with four processors, 64 megabytes
- of memory and 2 gigabytes of disk storage. The lab also
- includes a NeXT computer with color monitor, a Macintosh
- IIci with color monitor, a Kodak XL7700 color printer, an
- optical scanner, a film recorder, two commercial-grade com-
- ponent video recorders, a video digitizer, a scan converter
- and a digital frame store, and a multi-format video tran-
- scoder.
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- NCSC was chosen as the site of the International AVS Center
- in 1991. Two of the International AVS Center's goals are to
- broaden the user base and the functionality of Application
- Visualization System, the current "de facto" standard visu-
- alization environment, and to be vender-neutral. The Inter-
- national AVS Center plans to reach this goal by fostering
- discipline-specific AVS module development and developing
- new uses for AVS. The International AVS Center collects,
- ports and distributes user-contributed public domain AVS
- modules and serves as a liason between AVS users and ven-
- dors. The International AVS center manages an International
- AVS Users Group to work with users from around the world to
- form local user groups.
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- NCSC provides user support through e-mail and telephone con-
- tacts; it also provides training courses on a wide variety
- of supercomputing topics. NCSC has a complete training
- facility with lecture facilities, video taping capability,
- and a hands-on training laboratory populated with 16 works-
- tations. NCSC is a partner in the VISTAnet project, a com-
- ponent of the NREN project sponsored by the National Science
- Foundation. NCSC is installing a HIPPI based internal net-
- work for high-speed visualization and mass storage services.
- The Research Institute within NCSC pro- motes interdisci-
- plinary and computational approaches to challenging problems
- through collaboration with industrial and academic partners.
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- NCSC is a member of CONCERT, a state-wide network with
- bandwidth up to T3, operated by MCNC's Communications Divi-
- sion (see section 5.23 of the Internet Resource Guide).
- CONCERT accesses the Internet through SURAnet (see section
- 5.17 of the Guide). A state-wide two-way video and voice
- conferencing network, also operated by MCNC's Communications
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- Division, connects NCSC with universities across the state
- for collaboration and training.
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- The network address of the NCSC Cray is "flyer.ncsc.org".
- The mail server is "ncsc.ncsc.org".
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r
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- Academic resources are allocated on a peer-review basis to
- researchers affiliated with North Carolina's education sys-
- tem at no cost to the researchers. Resources for industrial
- affiliates are granted according to individual cooperative
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s
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- Executive Director
- Lawrence Lee, Executive Director
- (larrylee@ncsc.org).
- (919) 248-1149
- Deputy Director
- Jeff Huskamp, Deputy Director
- (huskamp@ncsc.org)
- (919) 248-1164
- Education/Outreach
- Curt Edge, Outreach Project Manager
- (edge@ncsc.org)
- (919) 248-1148
- Industry Partnerships
- Bill Coe, Director of Industry Partnerships
- (coe@ncsc.org).
- (919) 248-1166
- Operations
- Rob Silvia, Manager of Operations
- (rjs@ncsc.org)
- (919) 248-1132
- Peer Review Allocations
- Bruce Loftis, Research Staff
- (bruce@ncsc.org).
- (919) 248-1124
- Research Collaborations
- Ken Flurchick, Research Staff
- (kenf@ncsc.org).
- (919) 248-1121
- Scientific Support
- Jeff Huskamp, Acting Manager of Scientific Support
- (huskamp@ncsc.org)
- (919) 248-1164
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- Nathan Hillery, Manager of Operations
- (hillery@ncsc.org)
- (919) 248-1106
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- _R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s
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- NCSC forms, documents, CONCERT training material, utility
- programs and more are available through anonymous ftp. The
- anonymous ftp account is located on the Convex C220 at NCSC.
- The IP address is 128.109.178.1 or cardinal.ncsc.org. After
- you ftp to the server, enter the account name anonymous.
- You are then prompted for a password or identification name.
- At this prompt, you should enter your e-mail address. When
- you type in your e-mail address at this prompt, it will not
- be echoed on the screen. Once you are logged into the
- anonymous account, a limited set of UNIX commands are avail-
- able, such as ls, cd, help, and get.
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- For additional information and instructions on using the
- account, see the pub/README.ftp file or enter man ftp at the
- system prompt to see the man page. Copy this file to your
- directory on the machine where you initiated the ftp ses-
- sion. Type quit to log out of the ftp session.
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